‘Persons exists when
their voice is listened and understood’
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TITLE :
“DIGNITY
AND WELL-BEING :
services accessibility and congruence”
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How do social and health services
respond to ‘person’ with social and
mental health needs?
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How do they working together?
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How do they listen the excluded people
voice?
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How do they understand their needs?
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How do they promote DIGNITY & WELL-BEING
for them?
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DURATION
: 24 months
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CONTEXT and QUESTIONS
Homeless
people
living in severe & chronic
social, physical, psychical
precariousness are a symptom of the
malaise and a permanent injury to
democracy and social cohesion. They are
almost a provocation and a challenge
both for those ones working in health
/ mental health and social sector and for
those who should be responsible on the
policies and on the citizens.
Though any proposal for aid (support ?),
these homeless people seem to prefer to
live in the street or in an emergency
centre, shelter, occupied building.
WHY some of these homeless people in
this conditions seem to refuse any
planned and institutionalized help?
Are the answers adequate to the requests
of help?
Are the interventions
respectful of the dignity of the person
and coherent with the
complex
needs they bring?
Is the lack (of this integrate
comprehensive services) of continuity in
the social inclusion actions the cause
of these impermeable barriers?
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PARTNERS
To involve in co-working
professional workers in social – health
- mental health field, in private and
public services, including volunteers
people, who, day
by day, are faced with a set of old &
new issues, complex needs, with
political & social pressures far from
the ethical respect of dignity of the
person.
We’d like to involve partners working in
4 different sectors, who are 4 pillars
in supporting inclusive & participative
projects:
1.
Soc. Ass. services: Emergency shelters,
drop inn centres; dispensaries...
2.
Mental health Institutional & Community
services
3.
Home services: solidarity apartments,
housing first…,
4.
Participation citizenship: job adequate;
recognized role; re-capacitation
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GENERAL OBJECTIVE :
FROM
ASSISTANCE TO PARTICIPATION
The project focusing attention
on low threshold services
: of is on shelters and accommodation
facilities aimed to homeless, people
with mental illness and undocumented
migrants
The main objective is to improve the
competences of the professional workers
in social and mental health field with
homeless, people with mental illness and
migrants.
Build a mutual and lifelong training
programme aimed to give new competences
in deinstitutionalization of the
methodology in services delivering.
Build a new strategy in
delivering ‘HOME’ (accommodation)
facilities in which single people
needs are more important than community
or institution’s needs.
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THE SPECIFIC OBJECTIVES
Main objectives of 'Dignity & Well-being
project’, are :
1.
Meet, listen & understand deepest, the
voice of people voice-less, identity-less, home-less, health-
less, hope-less: excluded.
2.
Identify the innovative services and
facilities able to prevent the chronic
homelessness condition.
3.
Recommend some absolute priorities in
social & health policy.
4.
Promote & facilitate a great
collaboration & net-working between
workers of Institutions, Organisations,
Associations involved in this field, for
realising efficient synergy and turn
these daily practices into effective
models of efficiently networking
5.
Involve all civic society: policymakers,
administrators, citizens and mass media,
because this is a structural
society
problem and not only and specific
problem for professional people:
doctors, social workers and
similar...
Through the exchanges of
knowledge and the analysis of
experiences, we intend to highlight
effective and innovative alternatives in
approach and in the organisations of
shelters, facilities and delivering
services.
Through analysis
of the different services system aimed
to homeless people we’d like to
understand if the answers given by the
institutions are coherent with the
complex needs brought by homeless people
with mental health problems.
Focus on the good practices
aimed to defeat the risk of revolving
doors and ineffective charity
interventions in the individual paths to
come up from the deep social and
economic deprivation.
Focusing on innovative services
and facilities able to prevent the
chronic homelessness condition
Put on evidence the good practices and
strategies able to give to homeless
people the access to the fundamental
rights (House, Health, Job)
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THE NEEDS ADDRESSED
Better and deepest
knowledge for efficient and sustainable
interventions
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Directly this project for ‘adult
education and permanent training’
has as its target the knowledge needs of
professionals and volunteers from
different European countries, working in
the field of extreme poverty, closely
linked to mental health problems.
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Indirectly, the project would improve
positive consequences for understanding,
adequate and sustainable taking charge
treatment for those who are too often
excluded or invisible or so much visible
rejected by indifferent or pity : the
home-less, health-less, hope-less of
European metropolis.
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THE METHOD
Seeing:
Visit the services system aimed to
homeless people of the partners’
countries of the project
Evaluating:
Analyse how the system of services is
integrated with the civil society
Proposing:
How to support the best practices
evidenced Improving knowledge and
building capacities on 3 levels
1. Local level.
Preparing profiles of shelters and
facilities aimed to homeless people:
partners with each own multidisciplinary
team discuss about the system of
services of their country and prepare a
profile following a common protocol
2.
Transnational level. exchanging
experiences and practices: Realizing
workshops in which analyse services and
facilities in order to understand how
they contribute to dignity
3.
European level seminar
& hearing: Final seminar and hearing in
European Parliament.
From concrete cases and daily
experiences discussed and evaluated
during the workshops sessions, try to
synthetize the similarities and
differences in the living conditions of
homeless, in the interventions and
pathways, in order to suggest in final
memorandum more adequate intervention
and recommend absolute priorities.
The project also aims at producing a
document that
will share all that was learned and
provide guidelines for good practice to
the community of professionals working
with the homeless mentally ill.
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ACTION AND INITIATIVES
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Collecting data about the services
systems of the partners’ countries using
a common protocol
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Visits and workshops with exchange of
professionals (one week per each
training/exchanging module and one
module per country)
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Analysis of the collected data and
publishing of a good practices manual
1.
Kick-off meeting of Steering committee
2.
Launch of the project
3.
1 exchange workshop and visit per each
partner
4.
1 conclusive conference 2020
5.
1 publication of good practice
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EXPECTED RESULTS
Transforming the charitable approach
with homeless in respect of the
fundamental rights, the dignity and the
well-being of the homeless people with
mental health problems
1.
building capacity to co-working
together: public & private services –
health & social sectors
2.
improving knowledge about complex needs
and adequate answers
3.
involving civic society, policy makers,
administrators and mass media
4.
involving European Institutions:
Commission, Parliament
5.
publishing a good practices manual |